New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

The world's largest rotating world.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.